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CodeAssist is a programmer's power tool that eliminates the tedious chore of writing repetitive database access code. CodeAssist uses a flexible, template-driven approach to code generation that gives the programmer complete control over the quality of the resulting database code. CodeAssist wraps its high-performance code generation engine in a set of intuitive GUI tools that make the whole process straightforward and simple. The program can generate code in any programming language, and comes with a library of over 100 pre-built templates in Visual Basic, SQL, C++, HTML and Delphi that are ready to go right out of the box.

With CodeAssist, you create re-usable Data Objects to drive the code generation process. Data Objects are logical groups of fields that can be assembled from single or multiple tables and queries within a database. CodeAssist combines Data Objects with Templates to produce code that is tailored to your specific data environment. Data Objects make it easy to implement the same database functionality across several platforms; for example, you can use the same Data Object to generate code for Visual Basic, SQL, C++ and HTML! Or if you have numerous modules in a Visual Basic project that refer to the same data, you can generate code for each of them by combining different templates with the same Data Object. CodeAssist's templates contain code in the language of your choice combined with intelligent keywords called SmartFields. When code is generated, the SmartFields control what text is inserted into the code and how the code is formatted. SmartFields can insert the names of objects from your database, insert keywords for different types of variables, intelligently enclose code in quotation marks or brackets, loop through the different types of fields in a table, create legal variable names from field names, plus more! CodeAssist's integrated Code Editor provides auto-completion of SmartFields to make working with them a snap.

By giving you an easy and flexible way to generate code, CodeAssist puts the computer's strengths to work for you instead of making you work against the computer's weaknesses. Although you save time, CodeAssist's template-based code generation insures that you don't sacrifice any control over the quality of your code. And the templates included with CodeAssist make it a fantastic resource for ready-to-run database functionality in many of the most commonly used programming languages. Begin by modifying the included templates, add your own code where appropriate and soon you will have your own customized, reusable template libraries.

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